On February 14, I posted on Pantry Cooking Plus about Baked Cereal, my husband’s go-to breakfast. We usually bake it in the oven overnight at 180oF. When we purchased a Wonder Oven, we decided to try cooking the baked cereal in it. Instead of a casserole or baking dish, we used a saucepan of similar size with a metal lid. The ingredients were put into the pan and brought to a boil with the lid on so the lid would also get hot. The pan was quickly and carefully put into the Wonder Oven, which was in a large plastic tote, with a towel to protect the bags from spillage on the sides of the pan. The bottom bag was pushed in around the pan, and the top bag laid over it. The tote lid was put on and everything was left overnight.
It worked! The cereal was more moist than when we bake it in the oven, we used no electricity to bake, and the pan was still extremely hot. It would be a great way to cook the cereal when you have limited fuel available or have the possibility of power outages or rolling blackouts.
For more information on Wonder Ovens, visit my friend Megan Smith’s blog at My Food Storage Cookbook.
For more ideas for coping with little or no power, see the Power page on this site.
